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Bringing Europe’s Youth on Board
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When asked to support a more integrated EU in the coming years, young Europeans will ask themselves two questions: ‘What has Europe done for me?’ and ‘What is the EU really for?’ “More Europe” has become the rallying cry of … Contin...
Honeyball’s Weekly Round-Up
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The apprenticeship scheme was thrown into question, following the damaging report by the government’s own department which found that it is being used as a way of getting cheap labour. Vincent Moss exposed the report and yesterday which stated: “...
Youth, Politics and Incredibility
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European Leaders on Vacation. Can you spot a young one? Picture Credit: Euronews Recently, the Cypriot Ministry of Finance had reevaluated its estimation on the country's fiscal deficit. The new estimation assumed that the 2012 fiscal deficit wo...
Should Erasmus be saved or scrapped?
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Earlier this month, we asked what role can education play in easing Europe’s crisis. This week the European Commission warned that the number of places offered to students under the Erasmus exchange programme may be reduced if a budgetary shortfall...
Erasm us!
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"Erasmus and investment in worst-hit countries at risk, warns Lamassoure" (European Parliament) "Erasmus est-il menacé par les restrictions budgetaires?" (Le Monde) These are only a few examples of the articles that were be...
European Youth Media Days selected its participants
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100 lucky young journalists will report from the European Parliament in Brussels between 16 and 18 of October during this year’s edition of the European Youth Media Days. We received over 400 applications from motivated young journalists across...
Call for Applications: Two months paid internship at the European Centre for Minority Issues
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European Centre for Minority Issues (ECMI) is looking to nominate a candidate of Romani background for two months paid internship at its headquarters in Flensburg, Germany. Continue reading →Source: ECMI InfoChannel @ European Centre for Minori...
New approach needed to tackle youth unemployment
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Support needs to be targeted specifically at young people, taking their background into account, if a substantial difference is to be made to unacceptably high youth unemployment figures, writes Fiona Blacke...
Will the crisis lead to the end of ERASMUS?
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For some time already, a mobilisation has been taking place to defend the mythic and famous student mobility program threatened by the important cuts made by the Member States and the European Commission in the draft budget 2013. Alain Lamassoure,...
Is the crisis going to get the better of ERASMUS?
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Is the crisis going to get the better of ERASMUS? Since a while, a mobilization is taking place to defend the mythic and famous student mobility program threaten due to important cuts made by the Member-States and the European Commission … Cont...
SOS for the Erasmus program!!
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Recently it came to my attention that the EU's Erasmus program, available for all EU students is running out of funds and is in danger. The program is named after the Dutch philosopher Desiderius Erasmus, who lived and worked in many places in Europe...
Let's dedicate the EU's Nobel peace prize to Europe's sexual revolution | Philip Oltermann
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The long-term effects of the EU's student exchange programme are still to be felt – Erasmus has bonded the continent's youthOne criticism of the Nobel prize committee's decision to award the prize to the EU I have heard is that is a little bit lik...
Europe Excluding the Next Generation?
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The last thing that Europe needs is an ill-educated younger generation. But that is precisely what it's going to get as long as countries across Europe continue to cut back on teaching.
European conservatism isn't done for yet
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Conservatives, while often gloomy in their political outlook, tend to be warm and merry in their personality. I’ve just spent the weekend in Oxford with 120 young activists from around Europe, and found myself lifted by their optimism. They came fr...
My Stronger Europe competition is finally here!
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The Stronger Europe team is launching today an innovative competition with the purpose of increasing awareness of young Europeans on current European issues and widening participation in the European debate. The competition will be hosted on my.str...
Europe beyond lost generations
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Spain is very proud to have the best prepared generation of young people in its history, but not so pleased to confront that all that training is no guarantee for a job. Unemployment in Spain (25%) is twice the average … Continue reading →...
FH Undergrad Interns – Introducing the Sixth Generation
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Back in 2005/2006 I got annoyed with hiring highly competent people with several degrees as interns, most of whom really wanted a job not an internship (if you’re in that boat read this). In a spasm of proactivity I went about setting up our lo...
"Youth Unemployment – Conditions for Young People in the Nordic Countries" by Jonas Olofsson and Eskil Wadensjo
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Even though the Nordic countries show marked similarities in terms of socioeconomic and social conditions, there is much that separates them. Welfare policy ambitions may be similar, but when we examine the conditions for youths to establish themselv...
Reader Letters: Unemployed Youth
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Reader responses to our article Tuesday on the International Labour Organization's new forecast for euro-zone youth unemployment The responses reveal a misunderstanding of the situation for these young Millennials, as well as show how the consequen...
Signs of a Lost Generation Within Europe
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Euro-zone youth unemployment will remain elevated for at least the next half-decade say the authors of a report from the International Labor Organization, The Wall Street Journal’s Riva Froymovich reports.
"Unemployment is not the only urgent Youth Issue" by Sonja Bekker and Heejung Chung
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The Social Europe Journal website has paid a great deal of attention to youth unemployment – and rightfully so. However, becoming fully aware of the depth and persistence of the labour market problems of younger generations requires a broader persp...
"Youth Unemployment and Youth Employment Policy – Lessons from French Experience" by Florence Lefresne
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The last crisis has merely amplified what has become a quasi structural phenomenon: in the last 30 years, the youth unemployment rate in France has never dropped below 15% and has regularly exceeded 20%. And yet, youth integration into the labour mar...
Cafebabel Brussels is recruiting an Editorial Officer
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Cafebabel Brussels is currently looking for its new EDITORIAL OFFICER (unpaid trainee position) from September onwards and for a period of 3 or 6 months. Preference will be given to candidates entitled to a grant (i.e. Leonardo or other). Do you hap...
Is youth ministry helpful right now
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Youth ministry is basically a group of young people that lead a voluntary organization. This association is particularly formed to teach the adolescent about the religious teachings. This age is really a quite turbulent period as well as the youth ar...
From UN intern to waitress: open letter to Italian labour minister
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Alessia Bottone speaks three languages, has studied in seven countries and has an impressive four-page long CV to show for her 26 years. She now waits tables for two hours a week in a bar. The valkryie became a media sensation in Italy after her publ...
"Be more measured in criticising measurement of youth unemployment" by Andrew Watt
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Stephen Hill has a post on this website criticising the use of the youth unemployment rate as a measure of the extent that joblessness amongst young people is an economic and social problem. Unfortunately he goes way over the top in a number of regar...
"Youth Unemployment is overstated" by Steven Hill
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Economists don’t know how to measure youth joblessness. One thing we have learned from the economic crisis is that we need better ways of measuring economies, at both national and global levels. The economics profession missed an $8 trillion housin...
"Youth Unemployment in Europe" by Joerg Bergstermann and Bjoern Hacker
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The most recent Eurostat data – from spring 2012 – paint a stark picture: over 50 per cent youth unemployment in Greece and Spain, over 30 per cent in Bulgaria, Italy, Portugal and Slovakia and a European average of 22 per cent. The danger of a
JEF webzine wins European Citizens’ Price
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The JEF online magazine has been awarded the 2012 European Citizen’s Prize by the European Parliament. A great success!
Generation 1992
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Born in 1992? You are directly concerned by what is following European Commission is organizing a competition on the Single Market 20th anniversary and its meaning for the young people. The requirements? Being born in 1992, being an EU citizen …...
This is not the kids' problem | Richard Sennett
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What galls me is that a structural defect of capitalism has been dumped on young people like my studentsToo many people, we all know, are chasing too few jobs. It's an especially depressing prospect for young graduates, who face doing work, if they c...
Berlin expats: Spanish, Italian, Greeks go from limbo to limbo
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‘I'm not the only one having a hard time in Berlin’, says Marion, a student who has lived in the German capital for a year now. Germany needs immigrants - that's for sure - but in Berlin the rent is on the rise and day jobs are hard to find. Neve...
Europe’s highly skilled 20-30 year olds in times of austerity
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Raya Kardasheva is a Lecturer in European Politics at King’s College London. Hello Europe, here they are – the educated, the jobless, the hungry and the ruthless. They studied the European project. They believed in the European project. They...
